Post by Phil / December 24th, 2009
Version 1.0.3 of the Apdev VideoPlayer released
Just before christmas – as a little gift under the tree – we released the new version of our AS3 open-source VideoPlayer.
Post by Phil / December 22nd, 2009
First real life Flash/Indexhibit website
Hi there … it’s been a bit quiet here over the last month, but only because we had loads of work to do before christmas.
I just wanted to let you know, that we built our first real life Flash/Indexhibit website a few weeks ago – for a good friend who’s a photographer.
Post by Phil / October 23rd, 2009
Super simple Flash example of the Indexhibit frontend
Finally we finished the “super simple” Flash example of our frontend for Indexhibit.
You can read more about the whole Flash / Indexhibit story here, here and here or just grab the new files and try for yourself …
Post by Phil / October 21st, 2009
ActionScript Spellchecker for Flash Textfields (with source code and example)
Finally I had the time to add the missing features to our Spellchecker class v01.
You can now right-click the misspelled words and get suggestions from the loaded dictionary in the context-menu.
Post by Aron / October 20th, 2009
PreLoader (our Loader alternative) Example
Some of you guys asked, why even using the PreLoader instead of the original Loader from Adobe in the first place. The PreLoader queues the load requests, that’s all… :) Read the full story here.
For quick starters here an super simple example, that illustrates what we’re talking about:
PreLoader simple example. You might want to use something like charles to throttle down your bandwidth.
This example is also to be found the in PreLoader repository.
Post by Phil / October 14th, 2009
New version of our AS3 open-source VideoPlayer
Hi there.
After some inquiries we finally added the possibility to customize the Apdev VideoPlayer – only changing colors at this time but it’s a first step in the right direction …
You can now change any color of any object/control that is used within the videoplayer – but check the ApdevVideoPlayerDefaultStyle.as for all the attributes that can be manipulated. And it’s up to you whether you change the attributes using pure ActionScript (1) or our html-version of the videoplayer and pass the values in via flashvars (2). With approach 2 you don’t even have to know ActionScript or open a flash-file – just embed the videoplayer-swf into your website and customize it via flashvars.
For further information, see the upcoming examples.
Post by Phil / October 12th, 2009
Small Flash / Indexhibit update
This is just a small update to the sources of our Flash / Indexhibit example we posted earlier.
I added a FLA file for all of you that never used the Flex-compiler before :)
Just download the sources and open the ndxz.fla in (at least) Flash CS3. Hit cmd-return and enjoy.
When I have the time, I still want to build another very simple example that only uses assets from the library so that you can just change colors and forms on the timeline and re-compile the whole project with some great new looks.
Have fun. Cheers
Post by Phil / October 7th, 2009
Installation guide for Flash Indexhibit frontend
Because some of you asked for an installation guide for the example I posted earlier – here comes a small how-to so that you can get the demo up and running on your own computer/webserver.
There is more than one way to get this done …
Post by Aron / October 6th, 2009
XML to VO – as easy as apple pie!? (demo included)
I’m currently working with SOAP web services. While making adjustments to the classes of the wsdl Flex Builder class generator I discovered, that there is an easy way to decode / parse XML to VOs (value objects). The XMLDecoder inside the rpc package does the trick. I’m still confused why there are not more resources on the web regarding this topic but If you want to digg deeper, I strongly recommend reading these blog posts by Dominic De Lorenzo:
Flex 3, XML Schemas & automatic mapping of AS classes to XSD element definitions (Part 1)
Flex 3, XML Schemas & automatic mapping of AS classes to XSD element definitions (Part 2)
I’m not an XML pro and some things in his example I’m still not getting (namespaces in XML, yes well…). Also, his example is in Flex and I just wanted to have a basic example on how this could be useful for my work.
Post by Phil / September 27th, 2009
Updated our AS3 open source VideoPlayer
I just uploaded the new 1.01 version of our Apdev VideoPlayer to google-code.
We fixed/added some features some of you requested, like e.g.
- Volume button behavior changed
- VideoPlayer now fires events when the video’s play-state changes
- and some other minor changes…
VideoPlayer example: http://apdevblog.com/examples/apdev_videoplayer/
HTML-embed example: http://apdevblog.com/examples/apdev_videoplayer/html.html
We also updated the documentation.
So go and check it out: http://code.google.com/p/apdev-videoplayer/.
Or just download the new version directly: apdev-videoplayer-1.0.1
